Orders placed in Software are handled by
Amazon.com through their site, and by other vendors through DealTime.

The Ars Emporium sports two classes of Software: Ars Freeware created by brilliant Ars community coders, and software shopping courtesy of Amazon.com or the Ars Shopping Engine.

Software

Ars Shopping Engine
Powered by DealTime, the Ars Shopping Engine scopes out the best prices on the 'net for whatever software you're interested in finding. Buying software via the Ars Shopping Engine helps support Ars! Check out the the
Games section, or simply browse the Shopping Engine's entire
Software area.
Dig in for some
Hardware deals! DealTime's selection of products is truly impressive.

Amazon.com
Buying software via our Amazon links also supports Ars! Check out the large collections of Operating Systems, Games, and more. Here's a sampling of what's hot right now:

Ars Freeware

ArsWare.org
ArsWare.org is the home of Ars Ware, by which we mean software created by members of the Ars Technica community. While this isn't stuff you purchase per se, it's a great example of how kickass our community is. Some of the offerings there include:

CoolMonA utility which displays system
information such as CPU utilization, memory usage, page file
size, disk space usage, network statistics, IP addresses, date
& time, uptime, and system temperatures either transparently
on the desktop or remotely.

Dead Man's SwitchA program to carry out your
last wishes if you unexpectedly pass
away. If not reset regularly, Dead Man's Switch can
automatically carry out a series of tasks, such as post
messages to websites like the Ars OpenForum, send e-mails to
loved (or hated) ones, and encrypt or destroy sensitive files.
Dead Man's Switch has been featured in publications such as
the
New York Times and
Wired.